Billiards, Game, 500 Up

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Excerpt from Billiards, Game, 500 Up: An Account of the Above Game, Illustrated by Diagrams, Showing the Position of the Balls for the Last Nine Breaks, Also One Hundred and Sixty-Three Diagrams Well Adapted for Practice, With General ObservationsAt another time he was playing the non-cushion game, 16 up. On going off he twisted his ball into the corner pocket from the red, and won, in that manner, six games, his adversary not having a stroke!Desirous of ascertaining how many games of 24 up could be played within the hour, he commenced the task with a player of considerable eminence, and they completed thirty games within the specified time.Forty-seven games of 100 up were also played in eight hours and a half.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.